While at the Bundaberg Base Hospital, Jayant Patel is alleged to have punctured vital organs during surgery, failed to detect obvious breast cancers and hernias, and tampered with patient notes to conceal his incompetence.

By Kathy Marks An American surgeon known as "Doctor Death" to medical staff at the Queensland hospital where he worked for two years is to be extradited on charges relating to the deaths of 17 patients.

By DALRYMPLE, THEODORE My copy of Schopenhauer's essays was owned before me also by a doctor, J. Raymond Hinshaw, MD. Hinshaw, a former Rhodes Scholar, was professor of surgery at Rochester, New York, and an expert in the use of lasers in surgery upon which subject he wrote a book.

By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - An inquiry into an Australian hospital's director of surgery, dubbed "Dr. Death" by staff after he was linked to 87 patient deaths, was shut down on Friday after a court ruled the inquiry chief was biased.

SYDNEY, Australia - A surgeon at the center of a multimillion dollar investigation in Australia mistakenly sewed through a woman's small intestine up to 20 times during a botched hernia operation, a doctor told an inquiry Friday. Dr. Jayant Patel, who was educated in India but is now a U.S.